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"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Redditch Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Redditch
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Redditch He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Redditch
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Redditch A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Redditch
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Redditch Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Redditch
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Redditch Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Redditch
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Redditch Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Redditch
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Redditch My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Redditch
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Redditch Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Redditch "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Redditch
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Redditch The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Redditch
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Redditch Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Redditch
